“American in Paris” hails from a transatlantic producing team led by Pittsburgh CLO (Van Kaplan) and Theatre du Chatelet (Jean-Luc Choplin), by special arrangement with U.S. company Elephant Eye Theatrical (Stuart Oken, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Prods.). “Rocky,” which premiered in Hamburg, Germany, before landing on Broadway, also came from a global group of producers; even the current resident of the Palace, “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” had the ambitious Korean producer Chunsoo Shin on board.

Broadway’s increasing internationalism comes as producers and presenters abroad have taken note of the global success of musical theater titles including “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The Lion King,” and have started to crave their own piece of the pie.

“An American in Paris,” which opens its limited run at Theatre du Chatelet in December, begins its Broadway engagement with a March 13 start for previews, prior to an April 12 opening. The booking leaves the 1,700-seat Palace dark through the fall, although there’s always a possibility that the Nederlander Organization, which owns the Palace, could schedule a short run of another show there in the meantime.